Last movie you watched......

I'm surprised they're still doing as well as they are. We have a discount theater near us where we go a lot, but it's $3 a person as opposed to $10. We rarely have to wait more than a month for something to get there.

 

The only time I ever go to movie theaters is when I have a day off during the week, and can go to a matinee on, say, a Tuesday.

Otherwise, it's an awful, awful experience.

 

Is it that quick, though? I saw American Sniper in January. It's just now coming out On Demand. Four months seems like a long time. Then again, it's still in a few select theatres around here.

 

Yes. Matinees are the key. Unless the wife wants to see something, I'll usually go on Friday mornings on my off days.

 

That was also one of the movies that did pretty well in the theater. I can remember when movies to video took around six months and at least a year or more to the movie channels. Now it's just a few months to On Demand, usually, and as little as six months to premium channels. I hung on to discs from Netflix longer than most have (actually going to movies is almost logistically impossible for me anymore), but finally gave up because movies were getting to so many other mediums so quickly that I felt I could wait the little extra time. It was getting to the point where I'd watch the disc and the next week the movie was on a movie channel.

 

I maintain Netflix discs for the older movies. For example, I probably watched a dozen '50s sci-fi movies in the last year or two.

 

Movies I have to see in a theater this summer...

Avengers
Mad Max
Lost World

For me, that's a long list.

And movies will always be in theaters because they allow people to get out of the house. They allow people to sit in AC. They allow young men a private dark place with young women.

 

I haven't finished watching it yet, but I've enjoyed the first 30 minutes. It reminds me quite a bit in style to "Tupac Resurrection," which I thought was tremendous. Grohl's absence definitely hurts it, though. If you're trying to do the definitive Kurt Cobain documentary, you have to include Grohl. Brett Morgen said “I wanted to keep [the film] as intimate as possible, so I didn’t feel the need for multiple members of Nirvana [to be in it],” which is absurd.

He said Grohl was busy working on an album, so he moved forward. He later interviewed Grohl, but the film was already complete and he couldn't really work the footage into it. If all of that is true, I just think it was a terrible creative decision. If you want the film to be intimate, you need Grohl's insight.

 

Grohl, based on his appearances on Stern, is always incredibly insightful and has great stories about Cobain. I have a bigger problem with the decision not to use him if they had the footage and were just too lazy to go back into it.

 

I'll go in binges. I usually see 10 movies over Christmas break, then I won't see much in a regular theater for awhile.

I love matinees, and I have no problem going by myself if I think it's a movie my wife won't like.

 

Saw Foxcatcher on TV this weekend. Thought the movie was a little slow. Really good performance by Steve Carell as John DuPont, showing what an egotistical ass the guy was.

Wasn't sure why Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo moved slow like all their parts didn't work.

 

Agreed.